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D24120DT-MC - Application Stories

Ridgeline Machine made extensive use of pneumatics when building a low-cost, small-footprint, portable traymaker to replace a manual process for one of their customers.

Ridgeline Machine Design, LLC (RMD), founded in 2012, is primarily a packaging machinery producer, and the company's owners have over 40 years experience designing and building custom machinery. RMD builds packaging machinery for a variety of applications for product placement into AFM, FOL, HSC, RSC cases or trays, and they have also branched out into robotics and machinery for consumer cooler production.

Students Sergio Acevedo and Randle Johnson are two of the first students to complete their degrees in Mechatronics Engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, GA. The Mechatronics program at SPSU is a recent four-year degree offering, begun in 2007, which combines topics from Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to prepare graduates to "work effectively in all aspects of robotics, automated manufacturing, and the design of mechanical devices with imbedded intelligence.

If there's access to a stream, the only requirements to generate electricity are a 2 ft. drop in water level and two gallons of flow per minute. A hydroelectric system isn't overly complicated, it isn't difficult to operate and maintain, it has longevity and it's often more cost-effective than other forms of renewable power.

Some experts say a successful micro hydroelectric plant will pay for itself in 15 years. At Red Bank Hydro in West Columbia, South Carolina, we implemented our own micro hydro (read more...)

House Theatre of Chicago's original-script production of The Nutcracker demanded moving, changing scenery that magically transformed the set at the push of a button. AutomationDirect's extensive line of pneumatic and electrical components helped us realize these design elements easily, elegantly, and reliably. (read more...)